Metal disk wheel



Dec. 4', 1923. 1,476,130

W. E. WILLIAMS METAL DISK WHEEL File d Sept. 27.- 1922 '5 Use. t,

'EL EOJEDBIES, OF CHICAG-Q, ILLINOIS,

A CORPORATION OF NEW-JERSEY.

METAL DISK WHEEL.

Application filed September To all whom it? may concern:

Be it known that I, 'Wlmmu Enssrus "Wirinmirs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Wilmette, county of Cook,

Eltute of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metal Disk lVheels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce it wheel adapted to carry a deniountable rim 19 oi the split rim type and provide a wheel of simple construction which is unusual in strength and lightness.

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawing, in which -i' igure 1 is a front elevation of the wheel. Figure 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of one-half of the wheel.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3--3 of Eigire 1 looking outward from the hub toward the rim.

Figure 4 is a cross section of the rinron the line i ee of Figure 1.

Figure 5 a, transverse section of the rim only, being similar to the section shown Figure :2.

In the drawing 1 indicates the of an automobile wheel, here shown as a rear wheel huo, 2 indicates the ordinary brake drum, 3 indicatesn type of split rim commonly in use and 4 indicates the disk forming the web of the wheel, which is suitably fastened to the hub and provided with the marginal flange 5 seated underneath the outer side of the rim 3. A ring 6, having a flange 7, supplements the flange of the disk rind forms the inside tread portion oi? the wheel. This flange ring 6 is connected across to the margin oii the disk 4 by a series of cross pistes 8, which are connected by rivets 9 to the ring 6 and have the outer ends 10 turned over in contact with the front face 11 of the tellce portion of the disk s and are secured by the rivets 153 to the A series of nuts 13, having flanges are also secured to this face 11 of the k by the said rivets 12 thus the ends 10 of the cross plates 8 are clamped by the 12 in between the fixed nuts 13 end the of the disk.

'"ed to the rim 3 and carried therewith s series oflugs 15,h2tving holes 16 through which at series of screws 17 pass into the fixed nuts 13 and thus secure the rim to the tread of the wheel. place of the lugs 15 being fixed to the support for the 2?, 1922. Serial Ho. 580,953.

. rim of the wheel I may provide loose clips instead, and provide the clips with shoulders 18, see Figure 5, that will act as a Wedge holding the rim 3 onto the tread of the wheel.

By the construction shown I save the weight of the metal which normally might cover the gap between the ring 6 and'thc inside edge faces occupied by the plates 8, and this gap is indicated by 19, Figures 3 and 4.

What I claim is 1. In a wheel of the class described, a disk forming the sup rt of one side of ademountable rim an a rim forming the other side, an the two connected together by a series of cross plates.

2. In a wheel of the class described, a disk forming oneregion of support for the rim of a wheel, a secondary ring spaced from. the margin of the disk and connected across to the disk by a series of connecting members.

3. In a device of the Class described, a

disk forming the web of a wheel and marginally adapted for the attachment of a.

rim, in combination with a supplemental,

ring forming a support for part of the rim and means for connecting the supplemental ring to the disk.

.4. In a wheel of the class described, the combination with a disk adapted to carry a demountable rim, of a, supplemental supporting ring connected to the disk at intervals about its periphery and a series of fixed nuts and screws secured to the margin of the'disk and adapted to hold a demountable rim to the tread of the wheel as described.

5. In a device of the class described, the main disk forming the web of the wheel, a sup lemental space asunder from the disk and connected tiereto by a series of plates secured to the supplemental ring and to the disk.

6. In a device of the class described, a wheel adapted to carry a dcmountab-lc rim and provided with a: tread portion on one side in the form of a disk and on the other side in the form of a ring spaccdvasunder from the disk and permanently connected across to the disk.

7. In a device of the class! described, a. tread portion of a wheel having two con centric bearing edges adapted to furnish a 5 of the disk, excepting the sursupporting ring for a rim connected across at intervals only, in c em- 5 bination with means for holding a demountable rim 0n the said edges.

Signed at Chicago in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 25th day of Se a-- tember, 1922.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS; Witnesses B. J. BERNHARD, v Jos. E. Lem= 

